Whittier C. Atkinson

Historical marker location:

Coatesville, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on E. Chestnut Street near N. 8th Ave., on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2007

(1893 - 1991).

Pennsylvania was the site of the deadliest nuclear accident in U.S. history. In 1979, a partial meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.